A CryptoPunks NFT was sold today for 8,000 ETH, or $23.7 million. It doubled its previous record of $11.8 million last June.
Dozens of CryptoPunks NFTs sold for a million dollars or more. Today’s collection, however, broke its previous record with sales of around $24 million.
CryptoPunks #5822 NFT, which first sold last June for $11.8 million, was sold on Saturday for 8,000 ETH, or $23.7 million, doubling its record.
Deepak Thapliyal, CEO of cloud blockchain infrastructure firm Chain, has acquired NFT directly from CryptoPunks developer Larva Labs’ own online marketplace.
Thaplial tweeted that he used leverage via DeFi protocol Compound Finance to pay for CryptoPunk. The founder of Compound told Robert Leshner:
“Thanks to Compound Finance, I can still hold ETH when purchasing this.”
Saturday’s sale marked the fourth highest-priced NFT sale ever. Beeple’s “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days” NFT still holds the NFT sales record with $69.3 million.
According to data from CryptoSlam, the CryptoPunks collection released by Larva Labs has generated more than $2 billion in secondary trading volume to date.
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